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Part 2 - Sphaeromatidae::“Cute As Buttons”

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FLABELLIFERA • SPHAEROMATIDAE 203<br />

Figure 89. Serolis mgrayi: A, 6; B, pereopod 1; C, pereopod 2, 8.<br />

REMARKS Right into the 1980s this family was routinely divided into three<br />

groups, based on the structure of the two posterior pairs of pleopods:<br />

Platybranchiatae—pleopods 4 and 5 with both rami membranous and lack­<br />

ing branchial pleats; Hemibranchiatae—pleopods 4 and 5 with branchial<br />

pleats on endopods only; Eubranchiatae—pleopods 4 and 5 with branchial<br />

pleats on both rami. These three "groups" were recognized formally as sub­<br />

families by Hurley and Jansen (1977) but the names were not based on con-

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